C road crash in Stevenage SG1 on 18 October 2008 at 00:25 involving an Audi A4
An Audi A4 and a Mini Cooper were involved in a crash on a C road in Stevenage at 00:25 on Saturday 18 October 2008. The 22-year-old male driver of the Mini Cooper was slightly injured.
It happened after dark on a dry single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, away from any junction.
- Severity
- Slight
- Date
- 18 Oct 2008
- Saturday, 00:25
- Vehicles
- 2
- Audi A4 and Mini Cooper
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 slightly injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.91977, longitude -0.19878, in the SG1 postcode district and within the built-up area of Stevenage. It is one of the crashes that make up the Old Town, Stevenage, SG1 3RZ area accident hotspot.
Map of where the crash happened in Stevenage
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- 1 crash
- Slight
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 20084100E0569
- Council area
- Stevenage
- Police force
- Hertfordshire
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- Hertfordshire
Road and location details
- First road class
- C
- Road type
- Single carriageway
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Urban
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- Not at junction or within 20 metres
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Dark, lighting unknown
- Weather
- Other
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 1%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 99%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, at the same spot, was a serious injury crash on 7 October 2006.
Serious
Peugeot 106 crash on a C road in Stevenage, 7 October 2006
At the same spotRef 20064100E0534
Slight
Car crash on a C road in Stevenage, 9 January 2002
At the same spotRef 20024100E0017
Serious
Car crash on a C road in Stevenage, 22 March 1980
36 m awayRef 19804141E1060
Slight
Motorcycle crash on a C road in Stevenage, 11 June 1985
36 m awayRef 19854141E1101
Serious
Vauxhall Astra crash on a C road in Stevenage, 23 May 1995
51 m awayRef 19954100E0088
Slight
Ford Escort crash on a C road in Stevenage, 1 February 1995
63 m awayRef 19954100E0024
Vehicles involved (2)
Vehicle 1: Audi A4
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North West
- Travelling to
- North East
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 55 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,984 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Vehicle 2: Mini Cooper
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Going ahead
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- North West
- Position at junction
- Not at or within 20 metres of junction
- Leaving the carriageway
- Nearside
- First point of impact
- Back
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Journey purpose
- Other or not known
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 22 years
- Engine capacity
- 1,598 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Petrol
- Vehicle age
- 5 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Driver
SlightMale, aged 22, car occupant, in vehicle 2 (Mini Cooper)
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 20084100E0569 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Stevenage road accident statistics for 2008.